Chapter 55 How to employ people As a lord, with more and more talented people under his command, Tian Ze had to start studying how to employ people. After all, the ability to use people is one of the most critical abilities of a lord. Cao Cao was able to defeat Yuan Shao, who had a huge advantage, in a desperate situation, largely because of the significant gap between the two sides in the use of personnel. Everyone has shortcomings, especially talented people. While they have extraordinary abilities, their flaws are often also very obvious. As for civil officials, Jia Xu is lazy, Chen Gong is slow-witted, Cheng Yu is violent, Tian Feng is upright, Xun You is dull... As for the military commanders, Han Dang is short-sighted, Guan Yu is arrogant, Gao Shun is stubborn, Ma Teng is rude, and Le Jin is impatient... We cannot abandon these people just because they have defects, but we should use them according to their abilities and place talents in appropriate positions. Moreover, to a large extent, people with flaws are normal and tend to be more reliable than perfect people. Perfect people often only exist in theory. If they can really be found, it is sometimes a disaster and is completely difficult to control. Although Tian Ze has absolute means to control his civil and military officials, he also needs to make good use of these people and make up for their obvious shortcomings as much as possible.
Especially people like Guan Yu and Zhang Liao, although young, will be entrusted with important tasks in the future and may become important officials in charge of a region. Therefore, Tian Ze has been consciously cultivating and correcting their shortcomings. For example, Guan Yu. The reason why Guan Yu was so arrogant in the future was not only because of his outstanding talents, but also because there was no general under Liu Bei who could surpass him or even be compared with him. Whenever the troops needed to be divided into two groups, Liu Bei would lead one group and Guan Yu would lead the other. As the undisputed number one military general under Liu Bei, Guan Yu naturally developed a character that looked down on the world over time. Moreover, his martial arts were indeed superb. When Lu Bu was alive, Guan Yu could still restrain himself. After Lu Bu's death, Guan Yu let go completely and looked for someone to take advantage of. Under Tian Ze's command, with Xu Rong in charge of the troops and Dian Wei in charge of martial arts, Guan Yu's arrogance was now consciously controlled within a certain limit by Tian Ze. It is impossible to completely eliminate it. Without his pride, would Guan Yu still be Guan Yu? His talent would probably regress. Tian Ze did not completely deny Mi Fang and discard him. In some aspects, Mi Fang was even more useful than Mi Zhu. For example, when it comes to attracting refugees, Mi Zhu will certainly be cautious about everything, but Mi Fang will not. With the temptation of benefits in front of him, Mi Fang will definitely rack his brains and do his best. This is exactly the effect Tian Ze wants. If nothing unexpected happens, the Yellow Turban Rebellion will break out next year, so there is no need to worry too much at this point. As long as the existence of Liaodong can be concealed, there is no need to worry about the Mi family getting into more trouble. It is still unknown whether those people can survive the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Mi Fang did not disappoint Tian Ze's expectations. He immediately secretly contacted wealthy merchants from all over the country and transported refugees from Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and even Bingzhou and Sili to Xuzhou through various channels. Among them there were even quite a few Danyang civilians, who were an excellent source of soldiers. Tian Ze had tried to attract Danyang people through various channels in recent years, but unfortunately the results were not good and the number of people attracted was not large. I don't know how Mi Fang did it. The efficiency was so high that even Tian Ze couldn't help but be amazed. As a result, the wealth that Tian Ze had accumulated with great difficulty began to decrease rapidly again, making Tian Zhong anxious like an ant on a hot pan. But Tian Ze didn't care. With the income from business in recent years, his wealth had increased several times. Although he still felt the pain, it would be no problem for him to support himself for two years. As for the advance payment of copper coins from the bank, Tian Ze did not dare to do it. He knew the importance of credibility and must ensure that the ratio of copper coins in the bank to the corresponding Liaodong currency was maintained at a certain level, otherwise it would easily collapse.
Since Tian Ze only had a limited understanding of finance and Mi Zhu had just started to work with it, Tian Ze did not dare to try operations such as national debt easily. The bank was temporarily only used for deposits, withdrawals and loans of copper coins. Although he did not dare to touch the bank easily, it was a heavy tool. But the Yellow Turban Rebellion is coming next year. Won’t it be easy to make money then? Besides, there is a small island full of copper and silver mines to the east. …… Sitting on the ridge of the field, Tian Ze looked at Guo Yuan who was busy measuring the cultivated land area and planning the canal construction, and nodded slightly. Although he did not have a very deep impression of Guo Yuan, he had seen this name in some Three Kingdoms-related games he played in later generations. With the idea of trying his luck, after collecting and compiling a list of wise men and celebrities from all over the country and the names of disciples of great Confucian scholars, Tian Ze finally narrowed down this name and recruited him in the name of the prefect. After recruiting him, I was pleasantly surprised. He is also a great talent! Although Guo Yuan was not well-known in history and was not even ranked among the civil officials and advisers under Cao Cao, he was extremely capable in domestic affairs and was quite pragmatic. Cao Cao's famous military farming system was proposed and improved by Zao Zhi and others, but it was Guo Yuan who promoted it to various states and counties, and his achievements were remarkable. His position in the records of "Records of the Three Kingdoms: Wei Shu" is also quite prominent. With such a great talent, there would be no problem for him to be in charge of agricultural affairs. Moreover, Guoyuan's gift of "honesty" can achieve fairness and justice to the greatest extent and combine it with reality. He can reasonably allocate land and allocate village officials and farmers. He is simply the best choice for the management of the Ministry of Agriculture. Guo Yuan, who was fully devoted to government affairs, did not notice Tian Ze's arrival at all and had been busy for two hours without stopping. Finally, his assistants couldn't bear it any longer and gave a brief reminder, and Guo Yuan hurried over. At this time, Tian Ze was wearing casual clothes and chatting enthusiastically with an old farmer in the field. Dian Wei, who was supposed to be guarding him, did not show up. Instead, he was replaced by a young man wearing farmer's clothes and with a slightly childish face named Pang De. Every time Tian Ze went out for research, he didn't dare to bring Dian Wei with him. After all, when Dian Wei went to that station, people would be scared away. The newly recruited, young Pang De was just right to be with him, as he could protect Tian Ze's safety without attracting attention. If asked, he would say he was his younger brother. All the civil officials were extremely busy, except for his lord, who was quite free and spent his days wandering around and conducting research. Tian Ze was well aware of the importance of research and assigned regular research tasks to all important officials. Although he was aware of the difficulties faced by these ministers, who had too many government affairs to handle every day and simply could not spare much time, he still insisted on making such a request. At least come out once in a while, just to relax and check your work results. If you stride forward without even looking at the road, it is easy to get off the right path. He, who has the most free time, sets an example by strolling around every day. He likes to listen to other people's stories, and it feels good to come down and chat with everyone. There is a huge difference in mentality and cognition between Tian Ze and the people of this era, which enables him to stand on a high place and overlook the overall situation, and also bend down and get close to the people, chatting with the old farmers about family matters without any sense of strangeness. He can also gain insight into some problems from some trivial matters. For example, the old man who talked to him, it was obvious that part of his son’s salary had been deducted. However, Tian Ze did not make a hasty conclusion. Instead, he secretly took note of the matter and prepared to hand it over to Tian Feng for investigation later. (End of this chapter)